336 LEPinOPTF.KA. 



Kirby, whilo Ilofinann says " rare in Aiitrust and Septomber." 

 It is most unfoitnnate that we liave now no opportunity of 

 observin<^ its liabits. 



liAKNA. Head i^reyish-wliite, witli a black stripe on either 

 side ; body yellow-<^rey or red-grey ; dorsal line L'rey-black, 

 duplicated on the second segment ; from the third to the 

 ninth divided into three, more or less double, meandering 

 ragged dark grey lines, the middle one edged with paler 

 on each side ; in this, on the front edge and the middle of 

 each segment, is a roundisli dee]) black spot ; from this the 

 line is uninterrupted on the reniainiug segments; both side 

 lines are indistinct upon the first and last four segments, so 

 that the ground colour becomes more distinct, the subdorsal 

 lies just below the white lines of the dorsal stripe and is 

 dark grey, ])laced somewhat in curves and uninterrupted 

 throughout ; spiracular line close below, straight and un- 

 interrupted, sides pale yellow-brown ; just above the legs 

 bejrins an undulating and arched line, which on the middle 

 segments is obscured by fine black dusting, but becomes 

 !nore distinct on the tenth segnuuit, and passes along the 

 front of the ventral prolegs, becomes again faint on the 

 remaining segments and blacker on the anal prolegs ; on the 

 undersurface are a slender pale reddish-lirown central line, 

 and two broader dark grey lateral lines; legs brown: i)ro- 

 legs of the colour of the body; anal segment tipped with 

 black ; raised dots minute, black, each with a short black 

 bristle. (Hofmann.) 



July (and Hofmann says in a second generation in the 

 autumn) on various specimens of bedstraw — Galiuia irrum, 

 (1. iiwUuijo, and others. 



i'ri'A nut-brown ; in a slight cocoon among moss; in this 

 condition through the winter. (Hofmann.) 



Very little is known of the habits of this moth here, and I 

 have no personal accpiaintance with it in the living state 

 whatever. It is known to have been common fifty years ago 



